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Spenser novels volume 9
Language
English
Description
Spenser tracks down a young high school dropout who has run away from home to a life of prostitution.
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 10
Language
English
Description
The adoring wife of a senatorial candidate has a smile as sweet as candy and dots her "i's" with little hearts. A blond beauty, she is the perfect mate for an ambitious politician, but she has a little problem with sex and drugs--a problem someone has managed to put on videotape. The big boys figure a little blackmail will put her husband out of the race. Until Spenser hops on the candidate's bandwagon. But getting back the tape of the lady's X-rated...
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 11
Language
English
Description
The most dangerous man to cross is one who isn't afraid to die. But the most deadly is one who doesn't want to live. And Spenser has just lost the woman who made life his #1 priority. So when a religious sect kidnaps a pretty young dancer, no death threat can make Spenser cut and run. Now a hit man's bullet is wearing Spenser's name. But Boston's big boys don't know Spenser's ready and willing to meet death more than halfway.
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 12
Language
English
Description
In the detective business, Spenser sometimes has to bend the law. Other times, to break it. But he lives by his own inviolate rules. And he loves just one woman -- even though she is the one woman he's just lost. So when Susan's desperate letter arrives, Spenser doesn't think twice. His best friend, Hawk, faces a life sentence. And Susan has gotten herself into even bigger trouble. Now Spenser has to free them both...even if it means breaking his...
Author
Series
Spenser volume 13
Publisher
Delacorte Press/S. Lawrence
Pub. Date
c1986
Physical Desc
250 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Spenser searches for a prostitute who has disappeared while working for the man she loves, and finds himself in the world of high-class prostitutes and their wealthy clients.
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
A bitter divorce is only the beginning. First the father hires thugs to kidnap his son. Then the mother hires Spenser to get the boy back. But as soon as Spenser senses the lay of the land, he decides to do some kidnapping of his own.
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
Appie Knoll is the kind of suburb where kids grow up right. But something is wrong. Fourteen-year-old Kevin Bartlett disappears. Everyone thinks he's run away -- until the comic strip ransom note arrives. It doesn't take Spenser long to get the picture -- an affluent family seething with rage, a desperate boy making strange friends...friends like Vic Harroway, body builder. Mr. Muscle is Spenser's only lead and he isn't talking...except with his fists....
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 14
Language
English
Description
Spenser is called in to investigate the murder of a reporter working on a story about the cocaine trade. Threats by the local police and a Columbian produce dealer lead Spenser to dig deeper.
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 8
Language
English
Description
TV reporter Candy Sloan has eyes the color of cornflowers and legs that stretch all the way to heaven. She also has somebody threatening to rearrange her lovely face if she keeps on snooping into charges of Hollywood racketeering. Spenser's job is to keep Candy healthy until she breaks the biggest story of her career. But her star witness has just bowed out with three bullets in his chest, two tough guys have doubled up to test Spenser's skill with...
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 15
Publisher
Dell Publishing
Pub. Date
1989
Physical Desc
292 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
A serial killer is on the loose in Beantown and the cops can't catch him. But when the killer leaves his red rose calling card for Spenser's own Susan Silverman, he gets all the attention that Spenser and Hawk can give. Spenser plays against time while he tracks the Red Rose killer from Boston's Combat Zone to the suburbs. His trap is both daring and brave, and gives the story a satisfying climax.
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 16
Language
English
Description
Spenser, a hard-boiled Boston private eye, investigates when the leading college basketball forward appears to be shaving points.
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 17
Language
English
Description
When a Hollywood-based TV series schedules filming in Boston, Spenser smells trouble. When he signs up to protect the show's star, Jill Joyce, he knows it's on its way. First, there's Jill herself. She's spoiled, arrogant, drugged out -- made worse by fear. Someone is out to get her -- does she imagine it, or is it real? Spenser monitors her neurosis, but finds evidence of harassment. It escalates to murder. Now begins the dangerous part -- while...
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 18
Language
English
Description
Paul Giacomin enlists Spencer's help in localing his mother who has vanished. As they follow her trail, they are faced with a confrontation that may threaten their lives.
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 19
Language
English
Description
Spencer and his cohort Hawk investigate a murder in the housing projects of Boston and are drawn into a world of violence and hate.
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 20
Language
English
Description
Spencer is hired by Loudon Tripp to find his wife's murderer. Tripp doesn't believe she was a victim of random violence.
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 21
Language
English
Description
Spenser and Hawk solve the murder of an actor during the performance of a politically controversial play.
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 22
Language
English
Description
Hawk, is off in Burma, leaving Spenser on his own when longtime pal Frank Belson of Boston Homicide needs help. Belson's beautiful young bride, Lisa St. Claire, has disappeared. When Belson is wounded in an ambush that may be related to Lisa's disappearance, Spenser undertakes the search.
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 23
Language
English
Formats
Description
Spenser is hired by big-time Boston hoodlum Julius Ventura to find his daughter's missing husband, landing the private investigator smack in the middle of a gangland power struggle.
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 24
Language
English
Description
When Spenser is hired to uncover the truth about a coed's murder, he finds twisted cops, spoiled rich kids, and an assassin's bullet.
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 25
Language
English
Description
Spenser finds himself in the midst of a deadly conspiracy with personal and professional implications when he agrees to investigate a sexual harassment claim made against the shady ex-husband of Susan Silverman, the woman Spenser loves.
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